Benjamin F. Harding

Benjamin Franklin Harding (4 January 1823-16 June 1899) was a US Senator from Oregon (D) from 12 September 1862 to 4 March 1865, succeding Benjamin Stark and preceding George Henry Williams.

Biography
Benjamin Franklin Harding was born in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania in 1823, and he became a lawyer in Joliet, Illinois in 1849; a year later, he moved to California, and then to Oregon. He went on to serve in the state legislature as a Democrat, and he went on to serve in the US Senate from 1862 to 1865. He died in Cottage Grove, Oregon in 1899.